Get "Could not find the requested service" when trying to restart httpd; but it is installed

[Sean Hederman]

- name: Restart Apache

service:

name: "{{ services }}"

state: restarted

enabled: yes

become: true

vars:

services:

- httpd

Have tried variants with different states, enabled, become. All fail with exact same error:

amzn-build: TASK [web_server : Restart Apache] ********************************************* amzn-build: fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not find the requested service ['httpd']: host"}

Logging onto the instance and running:

sudo service httpd restart

Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]

Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]

Vanilla Amazon 2018.03 image with ansible installed via pip

I cannot see why ansible would report that httpd does not exist when it patently does

[Karl Auer]

This is almost certainly to do with the PID file.

Check that it is where the stop script expects it to be.

Regards, K.

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[Sean Hederman]

The pid file is at 

/var/run/httpd/httpd.pid

How would I check where the stop script expects it to be?

[Dick Davies]

Could not find the requested service ['httpd']: host"}

looks to me like your issue is in the playbook., You're passing an
array ( 'services' ) in as the service name, ansible is treating that
as a length 1 array
rather than just a string. Replace the "{{ services }}" with just :
httpd and I bet it works.

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